Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 4, sentence 12
And why, I should like to know, are the police never to be wrong?
Who acts: I, like police · What happens: like, know, be, not be · To what, where: like police
This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shoes of Fortune, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, like police), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 like | cc |
| 2 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 like | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 why | punct |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 like | nsubj |
| 5 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 like | aux |
| 6 | like | like | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 police | amod |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 know | mark |
| 8 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 like | xcomp |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 like | punct |
| 10 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 police | cop |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 police | det |
| 12 | police | police | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 wrong | nsubj |
| 13 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 16 wrong | advmod |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 wrong | mark |
| 15 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 16 wrong | cop |
| 16 | wrong | wrong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 17 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 16 wrong | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | like | should | I | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | know not said to happen | to-infinitive | I not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | is a | present | the like police | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | not is | to-infinitive | the like police | wrong property | tree rules |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 1597 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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